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Robert Chambers
[History of Welland County Ontario, 1887]
Robert Chambers, farmer, Candasville P.O., was born in the township of Wainfleet, April 28th, 1842. His parents were Robert and Agnes(Robinson) Chambers. His maternal grandfather was a native of Ireland. Mr Robert Chambers has always followed farming. He is now possessor of the farm on which his father settled. When it was in a state of wilderness, about the year 1826. This farm is now very valuable. It consists of two hundred acres of choice land, situated along the Welland river. Mr Chambers is an enterprising as well as an intelligent farmer, and is highly esteemed by the community in which he lives, as a proof of which he was elected to a seat at the council board of his native township in 1856. He was also secretary-treasurer of his school section three years. He was married October 1st, 1879, to Lucinda, a daughter of Daniel and Harriet (Nunn) Robins both of whom were born in the township of Gainsboro, Lincoln County. Our subject’s family consists of three children Elma, Levi, and Ada Lilian.
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